Karl Rove Is Ruining the GOP

[ksen]

by Brent Bozell

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/karl-rove-is-ruining-the-gop-111674.html#.VDVFsWctCUk

Karl Rove recently tried to advise Republicans on how the party can more effectively take back the Senate in November. He made two main suggestions.

One was that Republican candidates must “make the case for electing someone new who will be a check and balance in the Senate on Mr. Obama and his agenda, rather than returning a Democratic loyalist who toes his line.” Rove’s second suggestion was that the party should “offer a positive, optimistic conservative agenda to make independents who disapprove of Mr. Obama comfortable voting Republican.”

Rove is right on both counts, especially about offering a positive and optimistic conservative agenda.

But there’s one big problem. This advice is coming from Karl Rove.

Rove has never cared about conservatism and has spent his entire career opposing any Republican who might be successful in promoting or implementing a conservative agenda.

Let the GOP infighting commence.

 

[Bronzeage]

I think Karl's work was finished long ago.

 

[Sarpedon]

And yet he won't go away.

 

[thebeave]

There's still more ruining possible?

 

[TV and credit cards]

They'd be better off with Newt and his big evil brain.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Politico = Tiger Beat on the Potomac.

 

[SimpleDon]

by Brent Bozell

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/karl-rove-is-ruining-the-gop-111674.html#.VDVFsWctCUk

Karl Rove recently tried to advise Republicans on how the party can more effectively take back the Senate in November. He made two main suggestions.

One was that Republican candidates must “make the case for electing someone new who will be a check and balance in the Senate on Mr. Obama and his agenda, rather than returning a Democratic loyalist who toes his line.” Rove’s second suggestion was that the party should “offer a positive, optimistic conservative agenda to make independents who disapprove of Mr. Obama comfortable voting Republican.”

Rove is right on both counts, especially about offering a positive and optimistic conservative agenda.

But there’s one big problem. This advice is coming from Karl Rove.

Rove has never cared about conservatism and has spent his entire career opposing any Republican who might be successful in promoting or implementing a conservative agenda.

Let the GOP infighting commence.

What would a positive and optimistic conservative agenda be? Repealing the ACA and replacing it with nothing? Gathering up 10 million people who committed a 3rd class misdemeanor years ago and kicking them out of the country? Recriminalizing abortion to throw women into prison who only want some control over their bodies? To continue the reckless path of deregulation that has already nearly destroyed the economy in the Great Financial Crisis of 2008? To keep fighting endless war against a relative handful of people? Torture? The all powerful executive when in Republican hands? To throw away fifty years of social progress? To imprison ever more people? More tax cuts for the rich in the hope that trickle down will finally reach the middle class? More blaming the poor for poverty? More theology and less science in the schools?

Positive and optimistic? Impossible.